Antony Moxey
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Jabba.
They play seven aside on pitches 40 paces long by 20 paces wide. They have smaller goals and smaller balls (no jokes!). Our coach's preferred formation is a 2-3-1, where Harry plays central midfield and has both support the attack as well as sit in front of the back two. The two wide midfielders essentially play like wing backs and support the lone striker - he has about 15 goals to his name and the three in midfield are close to double figures each.
The striker doesn't come back into his own half and the two defenders don't go into the opposition's half (or at least that's how Brixington play it). U8s have no offside and you can make unlimited substitutions, including bringing players back on who you've taken off. Also the keeper takes kicks from his hand rather than placed, whether he's caught the ball or it's a goal kick, and there is no back pass rule.
Other than the knockout cup games, every game is officially a friendly and there isn't a league table - this is so that kids don't get put off playing by seeing their side at the bottom of the league with no wins from fifteen games having scored five goals and conceded 128. There's always one team who this happens to!
Games are played in pairs, and are of two fifteen minutes halves. There's usually a ten to fifteen minute break at the end of a match and you then swap oppositions, so on a matchday you will have four teams at each fixture and AvB and CvD in the first match becomes AvC and BvD in the second. For the cup games, you only play the one game that particular Saturday.
Phew, I think that's it, but feel free to ask if you want to know anything else!
They play seven aside on pitches 40 paces long by 20 paces wide. They have smaller goals and smaller balls (no jokes!). Our coach's preferred formation is a 2-3-1, where Harry plays central midfield and has both support the attack as well as sit in front of the back two. The two wide midfielders essentially play like wing backs and support the lone striker - he has about 15 goals to his name and the three in midfield are close to double figures each.
The striker doesn't come back into his own half and the two defenders don't go into the opposition's half (or at least that's how Brixington play it). U8s have no offside and you can make unlimited substitutions, including bringing players back on who you've taken off. Also the keeper takes kicks from his hand rather than placed, whether he's caught the ball or it's a goal kick, and there is no back pass rule.
Other than the knockout cup games, every game is officially a friendly and there isn't a league table - this is so that kids don't get put off playing by seeing their side at the bottom of the league with no wins from fifteen games having scored five goals and conceded 128. There's always one team who this happens to!
Games are played in pairs, and are of two fifteen minutes halves. There's usually a ten to fifteen minute break at the end of a match and you then swap oppositions, so on a matchday you will have four teams at each fixture and AvB and CvD in the first match becomes AvC and BvD in the second. For the cup games, you only play the one game that particular Saturday.
Phew, I think that's it, but feel free to ask if you want to know anything else!
